Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521028011
Subjects: Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Composers & musicians; Theory of music & musicology; Music/Songbooks; Music; Individual Composer & Musician; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Bach, Johann Sebastian,--1685-1750--Criticism and interpretation; Music / General; History & Criticism - General; 1685-1750; Bach, Johann Sebastian,; Criticism and interpretation; Symbolism in music; History & Criticism - By Composer
First sentence: Smend sets out the evidence for Bach's knowledge and use of the number alphabet most fully in the introduction to the third volume of Kirchen-Kantaten (1947), which begins: Picander's Ernst-, Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte (Leipzig 1732, Part 3) contains the following felicitation: On the occasion of the D. and T. wedding.